Rt Hon Mudashiru Obasa has launched a comeback into the Lagos State House of Assembly and presided over as a speaker with four members in attendance.

Obasa was impeached while on a trip to the US, but there have been controversies and insinuations about his coming back, which manifested yesterday, Thursday.

However, other Lagos State House of Assembly members have rejected Mudashiru Obasa’s claim that he remains the speaker.

This development coincided with the recent withdrawal of Meranda’s security aides, but the police said they had restored Meranda’s security details last night.

Speaking with journalists at the assembly complex, the lawmakers reaffirmed their support for Meranda’s leadership.

Stephen Ogundipe, a member representing Oshodi-Isolo constituency 1, who spoke on behalf of the lawmakers, called on the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos to intervene in the leadership crisis.

“Our leaders approached us with the idea that we should remain calm and take things easy. But we are surprised to see what is happening here today,” he said.

“We won’t take laws into our hands, just as we told the staff not to do so. However, we all belong to different constituencies and have our mandate. Whatever happens, the leadership should speak with us and not this charade we are seeing.

“We are not happy; we have been law-abiding. We have not gone out of our way against the state.

“We also want to be respected, to be given our dignity. To be shown that we are elected. I’m appealing to the leadership of our party that we cannot continue this way.”

All security aides attached to Speaker Mojisola Meranda of the Lagos State House of Assembly have been withdrawn.

ELANZANEWS can report that as of Thursday morning, security details attached to the speaker including police officers have been withdrawn.

ELANZANEWS cannot immediately verify who authorised the withdrawal but a source close to the Speaker confirmed that Meranda was now vulnerable.

All the Speaker’s security aides have been withdrawn. All the security aides attached to the House of Assembly have also been withdrawn,” the source said, lamenting that the “the speaker is now vulnerable.”

ELANZANEWS reports that the development comes amid information that Meranda may resign from the position as Speaker.

The move follows intervention of the heavyweights of the All Progressives Congress including Chief Bisi Akande and Aremo Olusegun Osoba, who are former governors of Osun and Ogun states respectively.

The meditating panel led by the duo met last Sunday with key stakeholders at the House including members of the Governance Advisory Council at the Governor’s Lodge in Marina.

The panel, according to GAC members at the meeting, are recommending the resignation of Mudashiru Obasa and that Meranda should also step down for a new lawmaker from Lagos West to take the mantle of the House leadership.

Another source in the Obasa camp also said all aides attached to Obasa have now been restored.

“They have been restored all Obasa’s security aides as of this morning,” the source said.